New Japan prime minister visits Fukushima nuclear plant

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Japan's new Prime Minister Shinzo Abe visited one of the Tokyo Electric Power Co. facilities at the crippled Fukushima Dai-ichi nuclear power plant in Okuma, Fukushima Prefecture, northeastern Japan, today. Abe's visit came amid pledges from his ruling Liberal Democratic Party to review the country's plans to phase out nuclear power.